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Institutional change and persistence: What does the long-run evidence tell us?

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  • Antonio Savoia
  • Kunal Sen
  • Abrams M.E. Tagem

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There is a broad agreement that political and economic institutions matter for long-term development. Yet relatively little is known as to how to adopt good quality institutions and reform weak or poor institutions, for which one needs to know how institutions change. This paper provides a systematic econometric investigation of long-run patterns of institutional change, offering panel time series evidence that allows for different forms of country-specific heterogeneity and cross-section dependence.

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  • Antonio Savoia & Kunal Sen & Abrams M.E. Tagem, 2024. "Institutional change and persistence: What does the long-run evidence tell us?," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2024-39, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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